A book by SoA professors Chris Perry and Kathryn Dwye, together with Kathy Velikov (Taubbman / UofM), David Salomon (Ithaca College) and Peder Anker (New York University)
Book Launch
Wed February 1, @ 6:00pm.
Rizzoli Bookstore
1133 Broadway, between 25th and 26th Street
New York, NY 10010
A conversation and signing celebrating the publication of Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape and the Postnatural, with editors Cathryn Dwyre, Chris Perry, David Salomon, and Kathy Velikov, moderated by Peder Anker.
The works in Ambiguous Territory exist in a creative space, in the moody realm of possibilities. It’s a sphere of design in which solutions (or lack thereof) have yet to settle. That should be a familiar feeling for all creative people, whose daily life may include exploring a way out of a problem without being able to nail down an exact answer. This volume belongs in that territory of ambiguity and curiosity, a place where there is room for musings, laughter, and despair. The projects convey, in different ways, a hope for a better future, but also a sense of not knowing if that future is at all possible. —Excerpt from an afterword to the book by Peder Anker, Professor, the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University
Cathryn Dwyre is Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Architecture at Pratt Institute where she teaches in the Master of Landscape Architecture and Bachelor of Architecture programs and is a member of the interdisciplinary research group Inclusive Ecologies.
Chris Perry is Associate Professor, Associate Dean, and Director of the Master of Science in Architecture program at the School of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
David Salomon is Associate Professor of Art History at Ithaca College where he serves as Coordinator of the Architectural Studies program.
Kathy Velikov is Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Creative Practice at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and the former President of ACADIA.
Peder Anker is Professor of History of Science at New York University.